Meols Cop High School Weekly Bulletin Week Ending Inclusive Excellence for ALL Friday 5 May 2017

The bulletin is quite thin this week due to a 3 day week for the students! I hope that everyone enjoyed the Bank Holiday weekend.

You may have noticed the building work at the front of school and this is due to our long awaited elec- tric sub-station. The school is running at its maximum electrical usage at the moment and should we wish to add extra buildings or increase the use of technology, we may find that the whole system would blow! Hence the desperate need for more power and this will allow us, within a tight financial budget, to improve facilities and cope with the ever increasing admissions’ demand.

By September we will have added an additional science lab to cope with additional numbers and will move the Asperger’s base so that it joins with our dyslexic unit and forms a new exciting area including a sensory room. We have already made improvements to the dining room queuing system which has meant much quicker queues and are looking to extend covered areas, again to cope with the increase in numbers and to have more space available when it is wet. The mentor’s room has been improved so that the confidential needs of students can be better met and this

An extra PE teaching room may be incorporated into the 2 gyms and we have plans for additional class- rooms over the next year to give us a greater capacity for the numbers of students who want to join our school. The national funding situation doesn’t help of course and we are being very careful with our spending. I’m naturally excited by the improvement plans and the governors and school leaders will continue to work hard to ensure that we provide the best possible facilities for our students and staff.

There was a letter in the Champion this week re the Research School status that we have just achieved. I have responded to the concerns raised about workload and finance and to the very positive aspects of the letter that the writer kindly made too. The Champion may or may not publish my full response but here it is so that all in our community can see my thoughts.

Can I firstly thank Les Jackson for his kind words about our school, and for sharing his concerns re our workload and future as a Research School. Can I assure him that one of the key criteria for our successful bid was a thorough check on our ability to sustain the high quality of education the local community has come to expect of us whilst having the talent, leadership and capacity to support other schools.

This involved looking at the support we are already offering and to be honest we absolutely believe that we should be supportive and collaborate with other schools so that our expertise can benefit others. Sure- ly the education system would be far stronger if all schools worked with, and not competitively, against each other? Our work with others and especially in the field of academic research, has the potential to bring the best proven methods into our school to benefit our students and staff and make our learning even stronger.

The money involved has little benefit directly for us as it is given to support the 200 schools that we need to work with to make an impact. The experience of being involved will be invaluable and will hopefully help to support schools across the North West and, of course, our own school. We will continue, as Mr Jackson, wrote to “provide an excellent all round education for the children of North Sefton” and will continue to offer that provision to an increasing number of admissions to MCHS whilst doing our very best to reach out and help the life chances of as many other children who deserve the same quality of education, as offers.

David Jones

Meols Cop High School Weekly Bulletin Week Ending Inclusive Excellence for ALL Friday 5 May 2017

SCIENCE STARS A big well done to all of 7.1b who got above 70% in their knowledge organiser quiz;

Grace Ball Alicia Maiden Lewis Barker Angi Malheiro Leonardo Boyd Lucy Mercer Jones Alisha Frodsham Francesco Navarra Freya Frodsham Nicholas Navarra Jack Johnston Merry Wylder

With a special shout out to those who got above 90%: Amy Farquharson Jacob Fenney Hannah Turri

Miss McLeigh.

Meols Cop High School Weekly Bulletin Week Ending Inclusive Excellence for ALL Friday 5 May 2017

Congratulations to Rebecca Kilduff for achieving the dance star of the month award, displaying; 100% enthusiasm, creativity and commitment to dance in and outside of lessons.

This year’s Wally Cain is based on the theme ‘Inventors and Pioneers’.

Meols Cop are performing a piece based on ‘Electricity’

Date: 29th June Location: Floral Hall () Time: 7pm start (door open at 6.45pm)

Tickets are available and can be purchased from the box office at The Floral Hall; priced £7.00 each.

Any more information please see Miss R Pilling!

Meols Cop High School Weekly Bulletin Week Ending Inclusive Excellence for ALL Friday 5 May 2017

SPORTS NEWS

Girls Fixture Dates 2017

Date Time Sport

Tuesday 9th May After school Rounders’ 2017 Home Scarisbrick and CTK 7,8,9,10 Friday 12th May 12.30pm Football 2017 Goals Liverpool North

Tuesday 16th May 1.15pm Basketball Tournament 2017 Away at (1organised by SPS) 7, 8, 9/10

Thursday 18th May After school Rounders’ 2017 Away at Range with Stanley 7, 8, 9, 10 Monday 22nd May After school Rounders’ 2017 Away at Formby 7, 8, 9, 10 Tuesday 6th June After school Rounders’ 2017 Away at CTK with Greenbank 7, 8, 9, 10 Tuesday 13th June 3pm/ 4pm Athletics 2017 TBC Venue TBC / Formby Tuesday 20th June 1.30pm Rounders’ Tournament 2017 7, 8, 9, 10 Thursday 22nd June 12.30pm Rugby tournament under 13s 2017 Tuesday 27th June 12.30pm sports day 2017

Thursday 29th June 1.30pm Tennis 2017 Greenbank/ Range/ Formby tennis club TBC

Tuesday 4th July Rounders’ Tournament reserve day 2017 Wednesday 5th – All day SPORTS WEEK Friday 7th July 2017

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